Issue Four

Where do you start with a subject as broad as ancient Egypt? It's easy to lose sight of what's significant among the details of this many-splendored land, but Christopher Tuttle brings it all into clearer focus.

We don't think of beetles as being sacred, but the ancient Egyptians did. They equated scarabs with the sun and the heart. Christopher Tuttle explores the scarab's long history and modern-day magical uses.

Just as the ancient Egyptians never called their linen-wrapped dead "mummies," they also didn't refer to their deities by the names we know them asIsis, Osiris, Horus, Set Learn what the Gods want and how to call them by their real names. By Tamara Siuda.

Dried husks of ancient humans wrapped in linen and covered with rare and fragrant resins. What are mummies really about? Peg Aloi looks at the whys and wherefores of mummy-makingas well as how and with what.

Author of the most lyrical translation to date of
The Egyptian Book of the Dead,
Normandi Ellis has much to say about the spiritual treasures of ancient Egypt and the perils and beauty of Egypt today. She spent a summer afternoon talking with Myrriah Lavin about her connections with the red and black land.

Mummiesobjects of mystery and horror. Clutching their dreadful secrets, they rise up again and again to terrorize the movie-going public. Walter von Bosau traces the Mummy's exploits, past and present, on the silver screen.